Louie (Louis C.K.'s show on FX)

Oh dear, her hot young wife just showed up to dinner. Holy LOL.

haha that episode was amazing

fuck yes
tix on sale same day though, so kinda tough to schedule

― Dudley Daigle: Tugboat Captain (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:09 (2 days ago) Bookmark

i am tryna visit ny in a few weeks & catch the guy in staten island; trying to get holiday time signed off before it sells out *bites nails*
godspeed on the BK tix forks

this show really is the best, after all

Ticketweb was a disaster, I (and ten thousand other people) logged on at fifteen till to buy tix and then the system fritzed. Both shows were magically sold out before they went on sale. Having been on the other end of that shitstorm as a venue, I sympathize. But only. A very little. Fuck, I really wanted to see louis tonight.

Ditto

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Oh goddammit, I notice this NOW

watching the commentaries from a disc of s1 i got for someone, they're great. he sits kinda texting or eating through some of them and then gets really psyched about lenses or cutaway shots.

Totally fucking hyped about seeing the beacon show on thursday

Btw:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/louis-c-k-plans-online-broadcast-of-comedy-concert/

aw yeah. i am seeing him in staten island on fri & can't wait. let's commune here after & trade punchlines & ruin it for everyone

saw him last month @ foxwoods in ct -- wasnt mindblowing or anything, lots of bits are p intertwined w/ plots of the show so it feels like ive heard a bunch of it? still good though

thought this was really amazing
maybe i will wait until people have seen the special to start endorsing specifics? but w/o spoilering i thought the pot smoking bit was the most otm drug story thing i ever heard.

also kinda an interesting change, such a broad show, the biblical/evolutionary stuff, childhood &c

pot smoking bit was def the hardest i laughed

um yeah wow this was fucking great
the bear bit
"some babies are CHINESE"
like 95% great top to bottom.

has the special aired already or soon or what

it's only available off his website. I think it goes up december 5 or 10?

really great interview transcript, & sister-rolling-stone article, from jonah weiner:

http://jonahweiner.com/Louis_CK_Q&A.html
http://jonahweiner.com/RS_Louie_CK_Jonah_Weiner.html

the article makes an off-hand reference to watching bears eat his daughters from the safety of a locked car - had totally forgotten this bit from the show, which didn't make the special, amazing

<3 <3 <3 the special, hope he made a shit ton of money

yeah both of these articles are real good.
also - there is a part at the end of the RS article that is like "nice to read", in a very "our personal endearment to LCK" kinda way, that reminded me of a piece on the awl last week that i didn't read but which was about how we were living in the Louis CK bubble, acknowledging that he is great & how the author is a fan & all but how we have reached a point of sorta blind DFW-esque mania and personal appreciation. i really hate articles like that because they're just sorta acknowledgement of context without necessarily being commentary, appointing the writer to the position of arbiter & overseer, i guess i should read it to see if there is some kind of illuminating perspective but it, it existing, bugged me generally

was the sex bit at the end of the special deliberately clueless / offensive?

appointing the writer to the position of arbiter & overseer,

yea it's weird, stuff like this is v distasteful & DFW praise is a good parallel. is it just a blog-influenced, modern young-er journo thing? can you think of any examples from idk 15+ yrs ago?

the whole guys are bad at it bit?, i can't remember if there was anything else to it. i was pretty into that?, i feel like a lot of his gender-difference stuff is a good example of his 'comedy takes you to places where you're uncomfortable' thing, not because of a sex-is-taboo element but because to get that general is awkward & i think i'd reflexively push against it in like a 'serious conversation' or w/e. what didn't you like about it?

i guess there was the guys-have-gross-thoughts girls-don't thing, hm

yeh wouldn't have gone down well on ruffalo thread, y'know

yea it's weird, stuff like this is v distasteful & DFW praise is a good parallel. is it just a blog-influenced, modern young-er journo thing?

like i think so. actually re: DFW, there was an interesting N+1 (online) piece a couple of months back by a guy who was a student of his, who's gone on to be a writer for some places, & wrote this two part piece on wallace. the first part was totally of the kind oral-history-of-david-wallace-the-guy genre (which i am totally fond of & unashamedly love & find interesting), stories about what he was like as a loving and demanding & influential teacher, etc etc etc. & part two was a not-review but reflection on the pale king, talking through & spinning a thread from some of its theological concerns. & what was weird about the piece was that the first part is so obviously, firstly, honey, for the fans, really interesting, personal stuff, which the guy was in a (not the right word) 'privileged' position to know, like had access to sparse, interesting, first-hand experience of, but which could also be perceived as somewhat prurient, or certainly as a kind of writing in the tradition of 'behind the scenes' rather than being concerned with the literature, etc. & you kinda felt like the second part was this fierce attempt to counterbalance the oversharing with an attempt to engage, to be a peer, as a writer, and talk to a former tutor's work on his level. i think blogging is a good reference point, because it's self-appointed, & like i should really read this awl article before bitching about it, but i just don't know what it was other than that kind of kneejerk acknowledgement of a moment, as inevitable as the eventual turn in the tides of opinion over a new starlet or critical darling. the context of copious opinion-blogging (/trendpieces, i guess) probably adds a race (as in spoon race, not as in race) element to this, in which it's great to be the first to be able to very neatly place a trend in its societal context

yeh wouldn't have gone down well on ruffalo thread, y'know

― Crackle Box, Thursday, 5 January 2012 14:55 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sure, yeah. i am going to be an apologist itt but i do sorta think that it was more as a counterpoint to his self-loathing at guyish one-track-mindedness, more about men than it was women, but yeah i guess we are on dubious ground

I'm sure they don't have a premiere date for Season 3, but does anyone know, will it be this fall?

i think i heard july but tbh that might have been filming it idk

Yeah the last couple of years it's been mid-late summer.

OK thanks

sure, yeah. i am going to be an apologist itt but i do sorta think that it was more as a counterpoint to his self-loathing at guyish one-track-mindedness, more about men than it was women, but yeah i guess we are on dubious ground

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, January 5, 2012 10:01 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

finally saw the beacon special, and yeah, i think this is true. it seems pretty much always true when he covers sex/gender?

the louie episode where he just will not shut up about how digusting men's sexual fantasies are bothers me more on a gender ideology level than his bit about women being better at sex in the beacon schedule. i guess that might be in part about what a total straw character the christian anti-masturbation activist woman is.

i finally watched some of this show. its p good, but not as good as i was expecting. does anyone else think the way he writes the louie character often feels self-serving?

schedule? i meant special. also the thing that made me laugh the hardest for some reason was "louis recounts incredibly stupid thoughts he has had," the whole dog-phone thing.

i think there might be some discussion of that upthread, ade? i wondered if the beacon show might have been in part addressing that criticism. he goes out of his way to talk about how he has all these beliefs but he doesn't necessarily live by them, etc.

i think it is an interesting argument, that you can kinda undercut criticism with some degree of manageable self-deprecation, that still leaves you a basically relatable, decent guy. BUT tbh i think it's more that it just works, & a lot of the show & what the guy's concerned with is how to be good, is what you're doing okay, etc, conceits that involve having a sorta morally neutral/uncontroversial/malleable figure at the centre. a friend was talking about the point where louie's sister comes over and talks trash about his ex-wife, & that's obviously a loaded construct - it's louis ck who's written it, in a setup autobiographically analogous to his own life, incorporating another character mouthing criticism of basically a real person, which he gets to good-naturedly defuse - but tbh i'm happier with the idea that most of that stuff is just 'true enough', eg lazily grafted from real feelings into his fictional show, rather than being part of an artistic persona.

i also think there's some of that baseline, seinfeld-esque premise about it all; there's a moment where they realised that it was okay for jerry to 'do okay' on the show - not be the putz, not screw up, to make money occasionally, be successful. part of the show is that louie isn't terrible & is trying & failing. there's a degree to which that's self-aggrandising but i also think it's modest enough, & 'everyman'-ish to be a fair starting off point.

i'm still really mad that the bit about his kids getting eaten by bears was excised from the special since someone posted about it, itt or in the sandbox

the louie episode where he just will not shut up about how digusting men's sexual fantasies

If this is the episode I'm thinking of it contained what was for me the most cringe-inducing moment of any of his shows.

Also while I thought the Beacon show was good I didn't like it as much as some of his earlier shows though I'd have to watch it again to pinpoint exactly why.

what was this cringe inducing moment

I'm not even sure if it's that episode and can't remember the exact circumstances (been a while since I saw it) but it's the one where the ep ends with him jerking off in his living room. It was really uncomfortable to watch. Is that the fantasy one?

For some reason I think that it was.

I have been watching s1 w/ the gf and there are def maybe too many cringe moments (esp for her)

so wait, are people objecting to CK's characterizing of male fantasies as exceptionally gross, or his own depicted fantasies on Louie *being* too gross?

I don't think he should even attempt to write dialogue for female characters

E, yeah, that's the episode.

I don't think he should even attempt to write dialogue for female characters

― iatee, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:34 PM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

definitely felt this way from time to time when watching the show. pamela adlon is so great, though, she brings a lot to her role. i don't want to spoil you with specifics!

x-post - See, I remember other parts of that ep really clearly but not exactly what happens in that final scene. I do remember, however, feeling really uncomfortable and gross after watching it and just thinking "Man, I really didn't need to see that".